Congin School third-graders got to lend a helping hand to this year’s Festival of Trees on Monday by decorating a tree sponsored by the Animal Refuge League. The Festival of Trees will celebrate the season from Sunday through Saturday, Dec. 9, at Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church with the decoration of over 50 Christmas trees. The festival, […]
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Council committees assigned The Gorham Town Council recently appointed its committee members. Shonn Moulton and Philip Dugas were named to the Finance Committee with Jane Willett, chairwoman; Burleigh Loveitt, Brenda Caldwell and Mike Phinney, chairman, Ordinance Committee; Willett, Caldwell and Dugas, chairman, Appointments/Personnel Committee; Phinney, Moulton and Loveitt, chairman, Economic Development/Capital Improvements Committee. Also, Norm […]
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Neighbors seek to partner on property
We note with interest the recent editorial (“Wal-Mart silence leads to property shopping,” American Journal, Nov. 23) regarding Saunders Brothers active marketing of its mill property. As residents of the neighborhood near and next to the Saunders site, our greatest hope is for a concerted community effort (Saunders, developer, city and neighbors) culminating in a […]
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Capers place two on field hockey all-star team
The Cape Elizabeth field hockey team had two players selected for this year’s Western Maine Conference Class B all-star team. Maureen Kertes and Meghan Knowles both made the squad based on their solid and consistent play this past season. The Capers finished with a 5-8-1 regular season record, good enough for No. 10 in the […]
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'Peabody Pew' a Buxton holiday tradition
The Buxton-Hollis Dorcas Society knows a lot about tradition. The group has produced a two-act play, “The Old Peabody Pew,” written by children’s author Kate Douglas Wiggin, every year since 1916. Marking its 90th anniversary, “The Old Peabody Pew” takes the stage at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the Tory Hill Church, at the intersection […]
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Key Club, Project GRACE hold 'presents for parents'
On Dec. 3 Project GRACE, Scarborough High School Key Club, and St. Maximilian Kolbe Church will hold the Presents for Parents annual event, where children can come to select gifts for their parents for the holidays. Families are encouraged to bring their children to this fun event at St. Max’s Parish Hall in Scarborough from […]
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Bikers recognized for charity
Members of United Bikers of Maine were rguests at the Postal Service’s new Southern Maine Processing and Distribution Center in Scarborough recently, as Maine District Manager Julius Locklear recognized them for the many charitable activities in which they participate. Locklear presented Fulton Butler, state president of the bikers’ group, with a framed, engraved enlargement of […]
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Gorham Remembered
The Baxter Museum, 67 South Street, will open for tours 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Dec. 9 during the open house at the Baxter Memorial Library next door. The museum was the family home of Maine Gov. Percival P. Baxter. Built in 1797, the home features Baxter family memorabilia among other Gorham historical items […]
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Looking Back
November 1981 The Maine Department of Transportation has refused to accept the Gorham Town Council’s plans for village square traffic changes. In a letter to Town Manager Donald Gerrish, George N. Campbell, state transportation commissioner, said the state will withdraw money allocated for improvements to the routes 25 and 114 intersection unless Gorham changes its […]
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Momentum in Augusta inches toward school consolidation
The Legislature is about to stir up the always-heated debate over whether the state really needs 290 locally controlled school districts, 671 public schools and all those school administrators – one for every 11 teachers – to serve a shrinking school enrollment. Right now there are a little over 200,000 students in the system, who […]